Simulation of the Allegro PET system using GATE

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 890-897

  Lamare, F ^a   Turzo, A ^a   Bizais, Y ^a   Visvikis, D ^a  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

Author keywords

Allegro PET system; Dead time modeling; GATE; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING; SCATTERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ALLEGRO PET SYSTEMS; DEAD-LINE MODELING; GATE; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSION (GATE); MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042544898     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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